Animated Racism

[Didacus]

Did anyone watch the 'gay moments' of the Lion king?
What's that about?

[homeschoolmom]

[quote name='Didacus' post='1656616' date='Sep 16 2008, 08:47 AM']Did anyone watch the 'gay moments' of the Lion king?
What's that about?[/quote]
I did not and I don't want to know.


Another interesting topic on the subject of Disney would be: Does Disney sanitize its fairy tales so as to remove their originally intended meaning? For example, in Hans Christian Anderson's The Little Mermaid, the mermaid disobeys her father (as does the Disney mermaid), but in the end, she walks into the sea and her body turns to seafoam because she was disobedient. In the Disney version, of course, she disobeys (because she just has to meet that boy!) and in the end ends up married to him. Sorta tells kids that it's okay to disobey if you KNOW that you are right. Don't listen to those cranky parents!

Discuss

[StColette]

[quote name='homeschoolmom' post='1656675' date='Sep 16 2008, 11:05 AM']I did not and I don't want to know.


Another interesting topic on the subject of Disney would be: Does Disney sanitize its fairy tales so as to remove their originally intended meaning? For example, in Hans Christian Anderson's The Little Mermaid, the mermaid disobeys her father (as does the Disney mermaid), but in the end, she walks into the sea and her body turns to seafoam because she was disobedient. In the Disney version, of course, she disobeys (because she just has to meet that boy!) and in the end ends up married to him. Sorta tells kids that it's okay to disobey if you KNOW that you are right. Don't listen to those cranky parents!

Discuss [/quote]

I don't believe the Disney version of the Little Mermaid tells children to go out and disobey their parents and they will be rewarded in the end. I mean, the Little Mermaid had to watch her father suffer for her sake when things did not turn out like she thought they would, the boy didn't kiss her in time. Her father signed over his own life to the Sea Witch in order to save his daughter. A great sacrifice of love from a parent and the movie makes it pretty evident that she felt horrible for this happening, ie she comes to his defense. In the end, out of the father's great love for his daughter he rewards her with her wish to be human. I mean the same can be said for us. We disobey Our Father, we feel sorry for what we did and seek forgiveness, and hopefully in the end we will be rewarded with eternal life.

[homeschoolmom]

hehe... I had not remembered that. (I don't think I've seen it since it was released!) That's a good point then. Disobedience does have consequences... just not necessarily turning one into sea foam. (I would have loved that ending, btw-- so unDisney.)

[desertwoman]

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I remember all of these growing up.

[Didacus]

Anyone familiar with 'Ash Puddle'? She was the first 'Cinderella'.

Her evil step sisters got their eyes plucked by crows after cutting off their heels. I think AshPuddles' story would be far more interesting than Cinderella - I make it a point of telling my kids the REAL Cinderella story every now and again.

[Azriel]

You ever get the idea that too many people have too much time on their hands? Why go looking for evil, when its so blatantly other places. Go fight the good fight, and teach your kids right from wrong then you won't have to worry about what Disney is putting out.

and my 2 pennies, I'm very happy not only that Bean loves the Disney Princesses, as they are most all certainly strong women, but I'm really not even all that upset that she like Hannah Montana either.

[Balthazor]

Hey I can not say anything about the sexism thing..... I mean one of my favorite series is the Wild Wild West.....



Oh James!